Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wrestling fans love learning little bits and pieces about their favorite wrestlers. It's impossible for anyone to know everything, but we're going to try to cram your brain with as much wrestling tidbits as possible. You know, just in case a random WWE trivia question gets asked where you could possibly win $1 million dollars.
Alright, that probably won't happen, but just pretend, will you?
01. Sting and Shawn Michaels spent some time training together during the mid 1980s.
02. The snake that Jake Roberts used to bite into Randy Savage's arm actually died after the incident because of a toxic reation.
03. The first person to take the Tombstone Piledriver from the Undertaker was Koko B. Ware.
04. Paul Heyman began his wrestling career as a photographer for a wrestling magazine called Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
05. As a teenager, Rob Van Dam was chosen from the audience to participate in one of Ted DiBiase's skit in WWE.
06. Lita states that she became a professional wrestler after watching one of Rey Mysterio's matches in WCW.
07. Terry Funk was the first foreign wrestler in Japan to be considered a babyface.
08. Ted DiBiase's mother and stepfather were both professional wrestlers.
09. Curt Hennig and Scott Hall were a tag team in the AWA in the 1980s.
10. Jerry Lawler was a radio DJ before becoming a wrestler.
11. JBL actually signed an NFL contract with the Los Angeles Raiders in 1990.
12. MVP spent 9.5 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping.
13. Vince McMahon did not get to meet his father until he was 12 years old.
14. When Randy Savage played minor league baseball, one of his teammates was Keith Hernandez.
15. Vince McMahon was upset with Ricky Steamboat for asking for time off to be with his pregnant wife, so he made him drop the IC title to the Honky Tonk Man.
16. Theodore Long got his start in the wrestling business by running errands for Tommy Rich and Abdullah the Butcher.
17. Kenny Dykstra was trained by the same man that Triple H was trained by.
18. Chyna was able to leave home and move to Spain when she was 16 because she had received a scholarship from the United Nations.
19. In 1990, Shane McMahon worked as a WWE referee under the name of "Shane Stevens".
20. When Greg Valentine first began wrestling, he had to lie to the fans by saying that Johnny Valentine (his father) was his brother.
